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Anthropology involves plenty of theory, most of it dealing with data on specific peoples and culture areas. Although this data is not always as pedestrian as kinship charts and lists of archaeological eras would indications it seldom titillates like quaint sexual customs and recipes for shrinking heads...
...toward elegant modern museums. In the case of Ellis Island, Johnson decided, the existing turn-of-the-century architecture was scarcely worth preserving, but the nostalgia certainly was. His solution is to take the two major structures, the immigrant station and hospital, turn them into romantic, vine-covered ruins. Pedestrian walkways will wind through the gutted buildings. "The point," he explained, "is to let the spectator himself re-create the feeling of those hard times...
...most humans, walking is the pedestrian business of putting one foot in front of the other. Not so in Germany. There it is a cherished tradition, a cure for ills mental and physical, and the kinetic tie that binds family and society together...
...sweltering summer day in 1959, a pedestrian waited impatiently to cross a street in downtown Richmond, Va., while a car blocked the intersection. The driver, busily chatting with a friend out the window, would not move on. His patience exhausted, the pedestrian finally bolted across the hood of the auto. Unfortunately for him, the driver turned out to be an off-duty policeman who promptly haled him to court, where he was charged with malicious mischief and fined...
...campus is built to grow. Both the lab building and the library can triple their size outward from the college's core. One pedestrian expressway points toward Netsch's yet unbuilt art and architecture building, a multilevel, polygonal structure within which students will go from floor to floor in spiral fashion as well as by vertical stairways. Even the more massive structures that rim the campus are open to the city around them. "We use the buildings as gateways," Netsch explains. As urban as the new subway station built to disgorge students right onto one of its walkways...